My first activity is to thank Russ Monbleau for being such a humorous and faithful correspondent for our class. We could always count on "newsy" letters and columns, and for that, Russ, I thank you on behalf of the Class of '66. It is fairly daunting to follow Russ as class correspondent. He has set a standard that will challenge me--please help me out by sending news, old or new. If the item hasn't appeared in column or newsletter, it is news to us. . . . Doug and Beth Adams Keene are back in the States and living in McLean, Va. Doug is still with the Foreign Service Office, and Beth is starting a new job as international baccalaureate teacher. Both of their children are married, and a second grandson was born in October 1995. Congratulations! . . . Malcolm "Mac" Donaldson was anticipating the wedding of his older daughter in November, and his younger daughter has just finished graduate school. His sentiment that the end of all the bills, although not near, is at least in sight, felt all too close to our common condition. Mac noted a new appreciation for what is stable, no longer finding stability boring! . . . Pam Harris Holden, a meeting planner, reported that she received the 1996 Meeting Planner of the Year award from the Kentucky Bluegrass Chapter of Meeting Professionals International, an international association. Pam, we are pleased for you and proud of you. Since Randy's death in May 1995, Pam's family unit consists of herself and Manrico ("Rico"), her loving cat. Her parents, now in their early 80s, will be a focus as they need more attention and assistance in their later years. (I think we could probably start a Class of '66 support group around issues of dealing with aging parents. We are in our early 50s, so our parents must be approaching, in or through their 80s, and aging takes its toll on them and their caretakers.) Pam is looking at relocating to the Phoenix/Scottsdale area in April 1997 and returning to New England for the summer. A future plan might be to establish her own business and freelance as a meeting planner so that she could have more control over her schedule, allowing her to come to New England each summer. . . . Bonnie Zimmermann Henricksen is now living in Framingham, Mass., with Karin, 6, Katrin, 9, Kyle, 11, Kare, 14, Christian, 17 (Craig, 20, is a junior at WPI in Worcester) and two cats, Winston and Claudia. Bonnie, what a full and active home you must have! In their back yard last June 22 the Henricksens were hosts to the wedding of their daughter Kristi when she married Charlie Petty of Seattle, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Washington. Every family member had a role in the wedding--flower girl, ring bearer, maid of honor, reader in the service, flute soloist--and cousins, aunt, father and brother performed at the reception. They square danced on the driveway, instructed by Grandpa Henricksen, 88, who still calls square dances in the Poconos. Sounds like a new standard for a meaningful and affordable wedding--absolutely ideal to me! . . . The news from Frank '64 and me is that our older daughter, Karen, is in her last year of an M.P.H. program at Columbia University and that our younger daughter, Anne, moved to Charleston, S.C., this summer after graduating from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Frank and I are kept busy and challenged with the demands of work (which we thoroughly enjoy), the needs of an aging parent, watching, supporting and trying not to give too much advice as our daughters move into their own adult worlds and the enjoyment of all too little leisure time.
Class Correspondent: Natalie Bowerman Zaremba

Best wishes to John Cooper on his Valentine's Day wedding. John and his wife, Diane, are expecting a grandchild this summer and will keep themselves occupied until then with their Himalayan cat. John lives in southern Maine and works for a large national catering service, Sodexho, USA. . . . Wedding bells also sounded recently for Tom Watson. Tom, who practices law and has been appointed an overseer at Colby, lives with his wife, Karen, in Wilton, Conn. Tom and Karen have four children between them--Katherine, 26, Willy, 24, Bonnie, 21, and Kristin, 16. . . . It seems that Tom and John could have used the services of Ledyard "Led" Baxter, who lives with his wife, Nancy, in Ludlow, Mass., and serves as the pastor of the First Church in Ludlow. Led currently holds the position of president of the Council of Churches of Greater Springfield, an organization dedicated to combating racism, violence and gambling. In addition, Led has completed work for his doctor of ministry degree at Hartford Seminary and recently received a master's in social work from Springfield College. Led and Nancy have two sons, Joshua, 25, and Jonathan, 21. . . . John O'Reilly writes from San Francisco that he takes off six weeks a year from his real estate law practice to travel and has visited 57 countries. When home, he is active with Zero Population Growth and with activities at the San Francisco bar association. . . . Jim Begin has taken his surname literally and begun a new career as a tennis teaching pro after he retired from his position of 33 years as a director of quality and research and development with Warnaco, Inc. Jim lives in Waterville and when not teaching tennis and coaching the local high school team works at his apparel trades consulting business, called, appropriately enough, NewBeginings. . . . Jean Howard Bleyle and husband John live in New Hampshire, but Jean, it seems, is one to travel. She had a mini-reunion with Elaine Dignam Meyrial and Diana Weatherby while on a trip to Rio and writes that she hopes to duplicate the event this coming June. . . . Roland Connors and his wife of 14 years, Dorothy, are living in Golden, Colo. Both started off in the mining business, but they changed careers to teaching about 10 years ago. Roland teaches math and coaches cross country at West High School in Denver; Dorothy, a graduate of UTEP, teaches science at Eagleton Elementary School. They live in a rural part of the foothills with "two Afghan hounds, two Siamese cats, miscellaneous fish, birds and recuperating second grade pets, projects and science experiments." In the summer, Roland is in charge of trail maintenance in Golden Gate Canyon State Park and shows his thoroughbred, Kirby, and he and Dorothy bike, camp and backpack. He writes that some years ago, Allen Throop '66 called him from the airport after browsing the Denver phone book for familiar names. He knew he was onto a warm scent when Dorothy replied, "Certainly you can speak to him. He's on the roof, and I'll have him down in just a minute." Roland invites Colby friends, or friends of friends, to go for a walk, a bike ride or "just sit back and lie, spit 'n whittle." . . . We know most classmates don't feel comfortable writing about their own comings and goings for this column. On the other hand, they immediately dig into the class news section of the magazine to read about what others from the class have been up to. Well, if you don't sit down and take a minute to jot us a note when you receive the questionnaire, we won't have anything to fill our allotted space! Please take a few minutes to respond when you get the next one.
Class Correspondent: Robert Gracia and Judy Gerrie Heine

Greetings, all! Hope you had a wonderful summer. Skip Fucillo splits his residence between Wells, Maine, and Key West, Fla., and lists his occupation as attorney/ sailor. He says he regained his faith offshore sailing on the schooner Liberty and is involved with Capt. Ted Allison in the 1997 Whitbread Race. He attended a reunion of the 1966 national championship hockey team and admires the attitude of Travis Roy, the injured BU hockey player. His comment on the O.J. Simpson trial: "no justice in L.A." . . . Steve Ford moved to Chatham, N.J., in August after living in Pennsylvania since law school. Naturally the move was viewed by the entire family with mixed emotions. With the acquisition of Scott Paper by Kimberly-Clark, all Scott lawyers were "downsized," so now Steve works in N.Y.C. as senior VP, general counsel and corporation secretary of Coty, Inc., the world's leading seller of fragrances sold through mass merchandising channels. He says their oldest daughters (twins) are in 10th grade, their two sons in eighth and fifth grades and their youngest daughter in third grade. . . . Californian Richard Foster and his wife, Gabriele, adopted their second child, Julia, on June 2, the day she was born. As with their son, Alex, 2-1/2, it was an open adoption in which they grew quite attached to the birth parents. As for having two kids in diapers not long before our 30th reunion, Richard thinks all those unencumbered years charged their batteries, since they have no difficulty handling things and love every minute of starting their family. Professionally, he is director of postdoctoral training for psychologists in an outpatient department, so he's spent some years in the final stages of "raising" people--now he says he's "just doing it from the other end as well." . . .  My husband and I visited Germany last spring to spend a week with our daughter Karen, who was studying in Tubingen second semester and traveling in Europe as much as possible. She's now a senior at Bowdoin. Our older daughter, Christine, graduated from Boston College Law School in May, took the Massachusetts bar exam in July and was awaiting the results. . . . Please continue to send me your news for future columns. Thanks.
Class Correspondent: Mary Jo Calabrese Baur